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Historic Garden Tour: An Edna Walling garden in Mount Macedon!



This week on The Horti-Culturalists we are very fortunate to be visiting a surviving Edna Walling garden first designed and planted in 1925. It forms part of the larger garden called Durrol which dates back to the 1870’s and has been in the same family ownership since 1919! Many thanks to the kind owners and head gardener who allowed us to roam this fabulous garden and bring it to you. We’ll take a look at the greater garden first before heading to the Edna Walling designed part and learning more about her extraordinary career and the key elements that make a garden typically hers. There’s also three plants that Stephen is quite puzzled by in the context of Edna’s planting history so we’ll look at those in more depth. And if you’re interested in some of the other historic gardens we’ve visited you can see them in the playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxtRBwKf75CVTy9Y5X15pRw96_ujyHati
The three plants that intrigued Stephen in this garden are:
Cordyline indivisa
Aralia elata
Enkianthus perulatus

17 Comments

  4. agnes PM

    Thank you for sharing this tour. It was so interesting. I look forward to seeing a tour of those little horticultural "communes". Happy New Year to you both. Best wishes for a peaceful 2023

  7. Julie Burness

    Happy New Year to you both. Gorgeous garden, thanks for sharing with us, and yes, I would love Edna's little village

  8. Janette Godfrey

    Something I love about Edna Walling's garden designs is that she uses local, natural materials; which is what I do in my historic NZ garden. I use ironstone dug up from our forest, which the original designers of our garden here also used; I use fallen branches as woodland garden edgings and as dead-hedge screens, and as rudimentary rustic Regency fencing (which needs replacing now and then); also, I use stacks of logs in woodland, as bug cities, which grow mosses and fungi, and which house beetles and hibernating frogs. So, the Arts and Crafts movement left its mark on, and is part of the living history of my colonial garden, which started out with Loudon/Repton Victorian influences. These Edna Walling/Arts & Crafts influences (including drifts of bulbs in lawns and wildflower meadows) are perfect for our environmental focus now. Edna Walling – so "now!" Thanks so much for this video. Yours are always GRReat!!

  11. Maria Le

    Happy New Year to you both! I just love all the layering of plants in this garden video.

  15. Kay

    Ellis stone I said to my partner, have I heard of that before? Yes he replies, that’s where Yoggie bear hung out. 😂😂😂

  16. Gilbert Dingle

    My type of garden, we have Arelia Elata in our garden it's around 20 Feet in height,looking forward to another of your wonderful videos.

  17. Alcabre81

    Hi!! Another fascinating video! Thanks so much! I live in Spain and I follow you from almost your 1st video and you’re such a joy to watch! Knowledgeable, out of the beaten path and entertaining!
    I hope that my English makes sense 😅, but just wanted to say a massive WELL DONE! Love your videos and chemistry 🤗 you’re an incredible duo talking about my favorite subject in the world ❤️🌱

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